Scipione Gentili

Scipione Gentili (1563 to 1616) was an Italian law professor and legal writer, born at San Ginesio in the Marche. He left Italy as a boy of sixteen with his Protestant father and his brother Alberico Gentili, later a founder of international law, and spent the rest of his life in Germany. He studied at Tubingen, Wittenberg, Leiden, Heidelberg and Basel, took his doctorate in 1589 and taught law at Heidelberg before a quarrel with Giulio Pace led him to Altdorf, where Hugues Doneau secured him a chair. Influenced by French humanist jurists such as Doneau and Cujas, he wrote treatises on donations between husband and wife and on jurisdiction, completed Doneau's Commentarii de Iure Civili and edited his brother's Hispanica Advocatio.